It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant…

- Zachary Lazar

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become a…

- Zachary Lazar

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

- Zachary Lazar

Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrat…

- Zachary Lazar

What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail …

- Zachary Lazar

I love the rabbit hole. I spend a lot of time looking at images, Google mapping, etc. I also love to read court transcripts, FBI files, stuff like th…

- Zachary Lazar